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The service configuration serialization now uses the helper functions from config.hh. This fixes the failing test mxs1731_old_persisted_config and improves the readability of persisted configuration files. Converted parameters into booleans that were used like booleans. This forced the removal of the automatic enabling of localhost_match_wildcard_host but since it has been enable by default, this change should have no practical effects. In addition to the clarification of the persisted configurations, this change will limit the negative side-effects of changing a configuration value in the main configuration file after a runtime modification has been made. If a value has not been modified at runtime, changes to it in the main configuration will take effect. Previously, a runtime modification prevented all further manual changes to the configuration file. Although in theory this sounds good, in practice this does very little to improve the situation: The only reliable way to change a parameter after a runtime modification is to do it via the REST API (or MaxAdmin).
MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation
The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the roles of the various servers within the backend cluster of databases.
MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to support different protocols and routing decisions.
For a detailed overview of what MaxScale can do, read the MaxScale page on the MariaDB website.
An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas, issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
We're also on the #maria and #maxscale channels on FreeNode.
Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the MariaDB Jira.
Getting Started
Read the Documentation Overview for a list of all MaxScale documents.
Documentation
The official documentation can be found on the MariaDB Knowledge Base.
A MaxScale Troubleshooting Guide can be found on the MariaDB Knowledgebase. It answers common questions encountered when installing and using MaxScale.
The documentation can also be found in the Documentation directory of the source tree.
Contributing Code
Read the Contributing page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do them.